Mindfulness-based training
A course that trains attention on present experience without chasing or fighting thoughts. The papers here are MBCT or mindfulness-based CBT, not a personality score.
MBCT is eight weekly group sessions plus a silent day, from Segal, Williams, and Teasdale. Online programs in the same family mix CBT workbooks with mindfulness videos and a coach. A questionnaire trait score is not the course. A walk belongs with aerobic exercise. Hours in bed belong with sleep duration.
Also called MBCT, MBSR, mindfulness-based CBT, mindfulness meditation.
Connected relationships
Randomized trial · Moderate
Mindfulness-based training→Depression
Higher Mindfulness-based training decreases Depression.
Ritvo 2021 found that online mindfulness-based CBT plus monthly psychiatry cut Beck depression scores by 8.54 points versus psychiatry alone in 45 young adults with major depression. Cladder-Micus 2019's MBCT add-on in chronic treatment-resistant depression missed on the IDS-SR in intention-to-treat and still raised partial remission.
Sources
- MB Cladder-Micus et al. (2019). Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for patients with chronic, treatment-resistant depression: A pragmatic randomized controlled trial.
- P Ritvo et al. (2021). Online Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Intervention for Youth With Major Depressive Disorders: Randomized Controlled Trial.